Fort Pierce woman accused of stealing cousin's Social Security money

FORT PIERCE - A Fort Pierce woman who allegedly took her cousin’s Social Security disability benefit payment has been arrested on a warrant charging her with grand theft.

Mary Nell Solomon, 22, of the 1400 block of North 15th Street, was booked into the St. Lucie County Jail on Thursday on a $5,000 bail, according to an arrest affidavit. She was released the same day, jail records show.

Solomon and her cousin lived together at one point and Solomon received the woman’s benefit payments to pay household bills, according to a complaint affidavit.

When the two moved into separate households, Solomon was to have had the payments put on a rechargeable credit card that she was to give to her cousin, the complaint states, but in September 2010, Solomon took the card to Wal-Mart and used an ATM to withdraw the funds. She also used the card to buy Oreos and a Coke at the store in the 5100 block of Okeechobee Road in Fort Pierce, it states.

Solomon told the cousin she never received the card, but later admitted she had withdrawn the cash.